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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the white men compared to?
(a) Bush fires out of control.
(b) Stampeding herds.
(c) Flesh eating spirits.
(d) A terrible storm.

2. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?
(a) Large areas of land were given to European farmers, without thought for the Aboriginal people living there.
(b) Areas of land were given back to Aboriginal people.
(c) A percentage of the food produced must be given to Aboriginal people.
(d) Jobs must be provided on the farms for the Aboriginal people.

3. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) How to use guns.
(b) A secret hiding place from the white men.
(c) That all their beliefs are false.
(d) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.

4. How is this carried out?
(a) Sending out patrols into the bush.
(b) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.
(c) Building very grand houses.
(d) Taking Aboriginals as servants.

5. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?
(a) He gets a translator.
(b) He tries to use sign language.
(c) He draws pictures in the sand.
(d) He writes it down instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?

2. Why are the women settlers upset?

3. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

4. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?

5. How do the white workers react to the violence?

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